Henschke Hill of Grace

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Over 165 years ago Johann Christian Henschke came from Silesia to settle and build his farm in the Eden Valley region. By the time third-generation Paul Alfred Henschke took over the reins in 1914, the now famed Hill of Grace vines were more than 50 years old. They were planted around the 1860s by an ancestor, Nicolaus Stanitzki, in rich alluvial soil in a shallow fertile valley just north-west of the winery

“This is a rich, luxurious, fruit-driven vintage release, with oodles of cherry, blueberry and plum threaded with licorice, mint, mocha and flowers alongside a cured meat underbelly. The palate offers wonderfully concentrated, satiny fruit cinched by powerful, sandpaper-textured tannins and buoyed by pitch-perfect acidity. It's showing a lick of polished oak but is crafted for the very long haul.”– (Cellar Selection)
— Wine Enthusiast, Mar 2022

"From a core of vines planted around 1860 (plus some 100+ and 35+yo vines) at 400m elevation. Matured 18 months in 85/15% French/ American oak, 29% new. Such effortless grace and caressing elegance, in the presence of commanding endurance that will sustain it for half a century. This is the paradox that defines the legendary fable that is Hill of Grace. The 2016 embodies this: the profound depth of black fruits, bathed in the inimitable fragrance and exotic Chinese five-spice that characterises these old vines, set to tannins more finely textured yet more commanding than ever. Resist the seductive temptations of its youth and drink the 2015 first, because the true spectacle of 2016 is decades away." — (Gold)
— James Halliday, Aug 2021

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Production area/appellation:

Eden Valley

Vineyard name

Hill of Grace Vineyard

Soil composition

Alluvial sandy loam over clay

Elevation:

1,312 feet

Year vineyard planted:

~1860

Harvest time:

March 17-26, 2015

First vintage of this wine:

1958

Average Vine Age:

100 year average - oldest vines 150+ years

Varietal composition:

100% Shiraz

Fermentation container:

Traditional open-top concrete fermentation tanks

Malolactic fermentation:

Full

Fining agent:

Vegan

Type of aging container:

Hogsheads

Type of oak:

French and American

Length of aging before bottling:

18 months

pH level:

3.43

Acidity:

5.83 g/L

Alcohol:

14.5 %

Cyril Henschke made the first single-vineyard shiraz wine from this vineyard in 1958 from handpicked grapes vinified in traditional open-top fermenters. Matured in 86% French and 14% American (33% new, 67% seasoned) hogsheads for 18 months prior to blending and bottling. The Henschke vineyards are nurtured under biodynamic principles.

The red-brown earth grading to deep silty loam has excellent moisture-holding capacity for these dry-grown vines, that sit at an altitude of 400m, with an average rainfall of 520mm. Hill of Grace is a unique, delineated, historic single vineyard that lies opposite a beautiful old Lutheran church, which is named after a picturesque region in Silesia known as Gnadenberg, meaning ‘Hill of Grace’.

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